Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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MusicMinotaur Shock - Amateur Dramatics
With a suggested price of £6.39 for the whole album, Minotaur Shock might just be underselling themselves Read more »| 05 Aug 2008 -
FilmVampire Diary
Probably made mindful only of those who thought the lesbian action in Buffy didn't quite go far enough, Vampire Diary is one of those wonderful British movie... Read more »| 05 Aug 2008 -
MusicGet Well Soon - If This Hat Is Missing, I've Gone Hunting
If Nick Cave met The Ronnettes in Transylvania, this is what would happen Read more »| 05 Aug 2008 -
Music
The Pack A.D - Funeral Mixtape
It's no secret that everyone in life - fathers, daughters, prime ministers and priests - get the blues. But it's a fact of music that it's mainly the boys s... Read more »| 04 Aug 2008 -
Music
Panama Kings - Young Blood
Young Blood and the Panama Kings’ material as displayed on this expanded single, come across as being very informed of the Sub Pop sounds of today &nda... Read more »| 04 Aug 2008 -
Music
Lonely Ghosts - Don't Get Lost or Hurt
Like Bloc Party filtered through an episode of Skins Read more »| 04 Aug 2008
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Comedy
The Worst of the Fringe
Joel Stickley and Luke Wright, authors of the comedy show, book and website Who Writes This Crap? give us their pick of this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Read more »| 04 Aug 2008 -
MusicRivulets - You Are My Home
Earnest, simplistic, but nevertheless stirring Read more »| 04 Aug 2008 -
Music
Kidz In The Hall: Head of the Class
Whilst whizzing through a series of phone interviews from Chi-Town, Kidz In The Hall were able to cut past the sonic distortion of the Atlantic ocean to chat with The Skinny about their new release, The In Crowd Read more »| 04 Aug 2008 -
Clubs
World On The Beat, Aug 08
Everybody knows that Edinburgh is where the world descends in August, but with all the attention Edinburgh gets this month, I decided to divert my gaze furth... Read more »| 01 Aug 2008 -
Theatre
The Lighthouse Keeper
The Lighthouse Keeper is aimed at children, yet reveals a far darker narrative. Gareth K Vile deliberately misreads. Read more »| 01 Aug 2008 -
Music
Sneakin' in After Hours
After dispelling the pocketful of flyers for ‘the next big thing’ or something ‘you MUST see’ during the festival, spare a thought for the tremendous selection of club nights. Not part of the festival per se, but late licences and a bustling city attract the very best of the electronic world so grab a slice of the action Read more »| 01 Aug 2008 -
Music
The Pictish Trail Music Playlist: Guest Selector
For your listening and reading pleasure, a mixtape track listing and a diary update from Fence Records' co-gaffer Johnny Lynch AKA The Pictish Trail Read more »| 01 Aug 2008 -
Music
I Hear a New World - August, 2008
Innovative and unusual music from Scotland and Beyond Read more »| 01 Aug 2008 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - August, 2008
August proves a lean time for singles, but can anyone emerge gleaming from the garbage? Nick Mitchell gets his ears dirty Read more »| 01 Aug 2008